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Guest Vic Abrahamian
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Hi

We have 5 editing workstations with Windows XP SP2 and about 15 users who

use these 5 workstations. Each user has an External USB drive.

Is there a way to force one drive letter for all users that plug in their

External USB drives into these 5 computers?

For example when a user plugs in their hard drive to PC 1 or PC 2 or PC 3 or

PC 4 or PC 5, they should see the same drive letter "O" as their external

drive.

Currently it seems to be changing on us and it's out of our control.

Thank you

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Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)
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Re: External USB hard drive, drive letters

 

 

"Vic Abrahamian" <VicAbrahamian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:774545D6-0E4A-42F0-9FAC-ECCA74A2876B@microsoft.com...

> Hi

> We have 5 editing workstations with Windows XP SP2 and about 15 users who

> use these 5 workstations. Each user has an External USB drive.

> Is there a way to force one drive letter for all users that plug in their

> External USB drives into these 5 computers?

> For example when a user plugs in their hard drive to PC 1 or PC 2 or PC 3

> or

> PC 4 or PC 5, they should see the same drive letter "O" as their external

> drive.

> Currently it seems to be changing on us and it's out of our control.

> Thank you

>

 

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Guest JethroUK©
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Re: External USB hard drive, drive letters

 

If they are identical drives i think that would be the default behaviour

(you should find most of them identical) - exception being if another type

of device (pen drive) has already been installed/identified by one of the

machines where it has allocate a drive letter - but in this case you can

simply open that particular computer/hardware properties and uninstall the

foreign device and then plug in/install your std drive

 

 

 

"Vic Abrahamian" <VicAbrahamian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:774545D6-0E4A-42F0-9FAC-ECCA74A2876B@microsoft.com...

| Hi

| We have 5 editing workstations with Windows XP SP2 and about 15 users who

| use these 5 workstations. Each user has an External USB drive.

| Is there a way to force one drive letter for all users that plug in their

| External USB drives into these 5 computers?

| For example when a user plugs in their hard drive to PC 1 or PC 2 or PC 3

or

| PC 4 or PC 5, they should see the same drive letter "O" as their external

| drive.

| Currently it seems to be changing on us and it's out of our control.

| Thank you

|


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